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2006-07-11 Africa Subsaharan

Promises Are Going Unfulfilled in Africa

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Posted by Steve White 2006-07-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How pathetic this article is - more idiotic hand-wringing and false hope bullshit. Throw money! The UN and NGOs sure as hell aren't the answer to Africa's ills. They're an integral part of the problem, since they willingly play the corruption game - with Other People's Money. They've been doing it long enough to prove the case - yet useful fools like Bono and other pussified twits and voyeurs keep the game going.

Africa is fucked. Period. Kin du Toit said it clearly and knew what he was talking about. Imagine, an entire continent of losers. Hard to wrap your mind around it, but they prove the point with every effort to help them.

The Obvious: It must, one shithole bend in the river at a time, pull itself out of tribalism and corruption. Nobody can do it for them. Everything done to help Africa has been wasted. All of it. Every dime and every life given.

Fitful. Right.

Posted by Wheang Spavirong9833 2006-07-11 01:17|| 2006-07-11 01:17|| Front Page Top

#2 More than 600 million of the world's poorest people live in Africa - often in crowded cities, or in small villages lacking health clinics or schools. Unlike every other region in the world, the poverty here worsens each year.

And won't change till the kleptomaniacs are lining a mass grave. All the hand wringers wanted the Western colonial administrators out. They got it. Now they're whining about the consequences.

Is poverty worsening in Germany, Japan, South Korea where the boots of American soldiers still gather dust? There are clinics and water purification facilities being built daily in Afghanistan and Iraq as we write by those same boots. The deep bigotry and hatred of people like the author inhibit them from solving any such problems, because they loath the demonstrated means to actually make change. Like an impotent witch doctor scream a useless incantation, all the words mean nothing and will continue to mean nothing till they rid themselves of their beliefs in fables and fairy tales, and start a very dark look at the reality of the world and history. There is no perfect. However, there are better real practical alternatives. Dont expect to see them acknowledge those alternatives in my lifetime, or the millions of lifetimes lost because of their blindness.

Posted by Glogum Thaviling3232 2006-07-11 08:24|| 2006-07-11 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Here's an excellent article on the folly of sending money to African ratholes.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-11 09:21|| 2006-07-11 09:21|| Front Page Top

#4 "More than 600 million of the world's poorest people live in Africa - often in crowded cities, or in small villages"

Yeah? And more than 900 million of the worlds poorest people live in India, one country! You don't hear a lot of bleeding hearts whining about them. Africa is a hole, quarantine the place and let it die.

-M

Posted by Manolo 2006-07-11 10:08|| 2006-07-11 10:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Africa has 13% of the world's population, and 69% of the world's HIV or AIDS cases. Still, the population of the African continent is expected to rise from 800 million now to 1.8 billion in 2050, because the fertility rate of 38 births per 1,000 people is still much higher than the mortality rate of 14 deaths per 1,000. Also, 43% of the continent's population is under age 15.

Never heard the term carrying capacity?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-07-11 10:26|| 2006-07-11 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Grom is right; so there will be a failed continent, with a growing population without prospect and perhaps even nothing to lose... and up north, an another continent, rich, with a dwindling population.... gee, I wonder what will happen?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-11 13:31|| 2006-07-11 13:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Yea, but Europe belongs to Islam A5089.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-07-11 16:17|| 2006-07-11 16:17|| Front Page Top

#8 If there ever is a major flu pandemic you'll see those population numbers in Africa go down. They will be the ones hit first, hardest and longest.

Posted by remoteman 2006-07-11 16:36|| 2006-07-11 16:36|| Front Page Top

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